Ah slight economic down-turn sparked a right-wing totalitarian resurgence across the whole world.

The lockdown mostly worked, because panem (food) and circensis (movie-streams and gaming) were continuously supplied. But, yes you have a point, the species behaved remarkably well under stress. But then, we also have a lot of social implants now too (cellphone-panopticon) and crowd-sourced anger-management.

Also its been half a year, since a angry crowd stampeded into the capitol building of a nuclear power.